ArticleCurrent biology : CB2021
One-to-one innervation of vocal muscles allows precise control of birdsong.
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- Transitions and tricks: nonlinear phenomena in the avian voice.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- A synchrotron X-ray CT-based 3D atlas of the songbird syrinx with single muscle fibre resolution implies fine motor control of syringeal vocal folds.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Male and female syringeal muscles exhibit superfast shortening velocities in zebra finches.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
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- Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recording.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Adaptations for extremely high muscular power output: why do muscles that operate at intermediate cycle frequencies generate the highest powers?Journal of muscle research and cell motility · 2023Review
- A flexible carbon nanotube electrode array for acute in vivo EMG recordings.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
- Bats expand their vocal range by recruiting different laryngeal structures for echolocation and social communication.PLoS biology · 2022Article
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- Computer-Implemented Articulatory Models for Speech Production: A Review.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2022Review
- Increasing Muscle Speed Drives Changes in the Neuromuscular Transform of Motor Commands during Postnatal Development in Songbirds.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
The motor control resolution of any animal behavior is limited to the minimal force step available when activating muscles, which is set by the number and size distribution of motor units (MUs) and muscle-specific force. Birdsong is an excellent model system for understanding acquisition and maintenance of complex fine motor skills, but we know surprisingly little about how the motor pool controlling the syrinx is organized and how MU recruitment drives changes in vocal output. Here we developed an experimental paradigm to measure MU size distribution using spatiotemporal imaging of intracellular calcium concentration in cross-sections of living intact syrinx muscles. We combined these measurements with muscle stress and an in vitro syrinx preparation to determine the control resolution of fundamental frequency (f
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